{"id":79,"date":"2006-06-13T15:01:20","date_gmt":"2006-06-13T19:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=65"},"modified":"2006-06-13T15:01:20","modified_gmt":"2006-06-13T19:01:20","slug":"resource-pointers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/06\/13\/resource-pointers\/","title":{"rendered":"Resource Pointers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was vexed to see that there was a bug in the software at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informs.org\/Resources\">INFORMS Resources Page<\/a> that sprung up in the transition to a new machine at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informs.org\">INFORMS Online<\/a>.\u00a0 For the past two months, no submission to the system was being logged.\u00a0 The worst part is that no one seemed to notice!<\/p>\n<p>This system used to be &#8220;Michael Trick&#8217;s Operations Research Page&#8221;, and was, I think, a key resource on the web in OR\/MS.\u00a0 Now, with the advent of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\">google<\/a>, it is unclear what role these resource collections have.\u00a0 If you know roughly what you are looking for, simply googling terms seems the right way to find things.\u00a0 If you don&#8217;t, however, these resource collections can be useful.\u00a0 But they are incredibly painful to keep up to date (about 15% of the pointers at the site are not valid, but keeping on top of them takes a lot of time).\u00a0 Two-thirds of the submissions are not OR\/MS related, so the editing process is pretty tedious.\u00a0 So is the effort worth the usefulness, or is this just another aspect of the web that had its time?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was vexed to see that there was a bug in the software at the INFORMS Resources Page that sprung up in the transition to a new machine at INFORMS Online.\u00a0 For the past two months, no submission to the system was being logged.\u00a0 The worst part is that no one seemed to notice! This &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/06\/13\/resource-pointers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Resource Pointers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-and-web","category-informs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}